Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!nosc!crash!gregpen From: gregpen@crash.cts.com (Greg Penetrante) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: Mac LC and the OIDS game Message-ID: <1991Jun29.160145.26798@crash.cts.com> Date: 29 Jun 91 16:01:45 GMT References: <1991Jun27.071832.24907@crash.cts.com> <1991Jun27.132820.27977@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 25 > >It would be nicer if you (the original poster) paid for the game, >since registered users get a key code to enter that removes the copy >protection. At least, that's how I removed the copy protection from >my copy: after purchasing it, I sent in the registration card, and two >weeks later FTL sent me the key code. End of copy protection. > >If you like the game enough to waste all this time trying to get >around its copy protection, why not spend the $30 and buy it? If you >had written and published a game as wonderful as OIDS, wouldn't you >want people to buy it from you, rather than selfishly (and illegally) >copying it -- and then whining about its copy protection? > >-- > Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, > Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." > baumgart@esquire.dpw.com | > cmcl2!esquire!baumgart | - David Letterman Steve, I DID buy the Oids game. However I did not run successfully on the Mac LC. It ran ONLY on the Mac Plus!! Regardless of the serial number. End of story. -greg p.s. And yes, I also have a perfectly legal right to whine about anachronisms.